Regardless what you think about the group who were launching the drone, I think we can all agree that our first reaction to seeing the ugly thing would be to shoot first and ask questions later. Years of first person shooter games with enemies that fly around have permanently implanted the reaction into my brain.

And then the drone shooters "fled scene on small motorized vehicles". Weird, but awesome.

They already did. It was called XScale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xscale). I believe it was eventually sold to Marvell. I still do work for clients that use them. Not exactly power houses, but they get the job done.

Having just tried Xubuntu 11.04 and regular Ubuntu 11.04, trying to decide which to give to one of my clueless relatives, I'd say the one thing that lacked in the XFCE setup was browsing smb network shares through the file browser. It was easy for said relative to pop in an Ubuntu 11.04 boot cd (unity and all), get into a live desktop, and find the network share for some network gadget he had. Sure Nautilus pulls in a ton of junk and ain't great on your outdated desktop, but it works. The default file browser in Xubuntu wasn't nearly as functional, for all of the speed up it might have given.

currency! First one to post a verifiable signature on a Slashdot story gets a Slashcoin. Taco and crew are then our new federal reserve--they can inflate the currency to pay our debt to China by posting more duplicate stories!

Our problems are solved!

Oh good glub that brought back some horrible memories.

If I could think of a language with a syntax worse than JS, it would be PL/1. I just LOVE letting programmers use keywords as variable names, throwing up my hands and saying, "let the compiler figure this isht out!"

Excuse me while I go kill myself.

Religion has learned to exploit the part of our brain that was meant for the appreciation of Apple products.

Get it right!